Regina Spektor Quotes

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

I like to improvise.

I live for the blank page.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

I love improvisation.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

Just write what comes to you.

I've been writing since I was really young.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.